Google kicked off its annual I/O developer conference at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. Here are some of the biggest announcements from the Day 1 keynote. There will be more to come over the next couple of days, so follow along on everything Google I/O on TechCrunch. Google g…

Google today launched a new tool for teachers and their students called Tour Creator, which allows anyone to create their own VR tour using imagery from Google’s Street View or their own 360-degree photos. The new app is designed to work with Google Cardboard and Google’s existing VR &#…

How did you find Microsoft Build yesterday? We don’t really have time for your answer because Google I/O is already here! Google is kicking off its annual developer conference today. As usual, there will be a consumer keynote with major new products in the morning, and a developer-centric keynote i…

Blizzard is currently running a charity event in its multiplayer game Overwatch, and it’s a surprisingly heartwarming effort from the company. The details: As part of the fundraiser, Blizzard is donating a minimum of $250,000 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF). It’s also selling a limited edition skin for Mercy, in-game doctor and popular support character …

Google kicked off its annual I/O developer conference at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. Here are some of the biggest announcements from the Day 1 keynote. There will be more to come over the next couple of days, so follow along on everything Google I/O on TechCrunch. Google g…

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Apple began to rev up its TV efforts in earnest last year when it hired two former Sony TV executives to run its original content business. The company already has already ordered 13 original TV series of its own, but it hasn’t revealed how it plans to distrubute them. One rumor is that the company could also air its TV shows through the TV app as a way to drive more users to its services.

It’s all thanks to a new Steam Link app that Valve just announced. The app will be available on Android (phone, tablet, TV) and iOS-based (iPhone, iPad, Apple TV) devices, and will allow you to play games from your Steam library while connected via 5Ghz network or wired via Ethernet to a Mac or PC.

Uber’s flying taxis are taking off, as the transportation upstart looks for new ways to shorten trips made long because of distance or traffic congestion. Flying cars were once nearly the exclusive domain of tech aphorisms (“You promised us flying cars, but instead we have x.”), but now they are actually being put into gear in the form of electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles. Over the last couple of days at the Uber Elevate summit in Los Angeles, the company further laid out its own ambitious plans to develop and commercially deploy air taxis by 2023.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - ZTE Corp’s ( 0763.HK ) ( 000063.SZ ) main business operations have ceased due to a ban imposed by the U.S. government, but China’s second biggest telecom equipment maker is trying to have the ban modified or reversed, it said on Wednesday.

The "Littlest Postmasters," as the group calls themselves, launched on May 5 in honor of National Small Business Week, and has big plans to spread cheer in a technology-obsessed world by putting a literal small spin on an old-fashioned form of communication.

I'm going to walk you through the process of installing Automate and then create a simple flow, so you can understand how the tool works. Once you've mastered creating a simple flow, you can then download any number of pre-built flows to understand how to make use of the highly flexible system. Once you have a solid understanding of how flows work, the sky's the limit to what you can automate on your Android device. The app is free and includes access to a large number of shared flows (from other users).

The odds of Trump signing the resolution are slim. It's hard to say for sure what the president thinks about net neutrality or if he's given it much thought at all, since it's not a topic he's tweeted about after taking office. But given that Trump appointed Ajit Pai, the FCC chairman leading the charge to dismantle the rules, it's probably safe to assume he wouldn't overturn a measure his own guy adopted.

The paper supported its findings with data from NTNU – the Norwegian University of Science and Technology – which it says has “assembled some of Norway’s leading experts in data security and cybercrime prevention.” Its report reads in part, “Using advanced statistical analysis of the data provided by DN, NTNU determined that there had in fact been a manipulation of the data at particular times due to the large presence of similar duplicate records occurring for a large percentage of the userbase that was active at any given time. In reviewing the data, in isolation from any other records or logs, it was not possible to determine the exact means of manipulation; however, the absence of records with unreadable data suggested it was not an external Structured Query Language Injection (SQLi) vector based attacked, but rather manipulation from within the streaming service itself. Due to the targeted nature and extent of the manipulation, it is very unlikely that this manipulation was solely the result of a code based bug or other system anomaly. The following analysis shows in detail why this conclusion is the most likely conclusion and further, the nature and extent it is suspected that the manipulation has affected the accuracy of the data … The manipulation appears targeted towards a very specific set of track IDs, related to two distinct albums,” “Pablo” and “Lemonade.

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At the search giant's annual developer conference it introduced a new feature for its Gmail email service called Smart Compose, which is designed to reduce the number of taps you need to perform to write your messages.

When the Google Home Max debuted last fall, we asked Google if the smart speaker would be compatible with TVs as a soundbar. The answer was no, but the company is finally placing some emphasis on Google Assistant-powered soundbars. The first product in this category is JBL’s Link Bar. It’s an Android TV streaming box, soundbar, and smart speaker all in one, and we spent some time checking it out at Google I/O 2018. Article: https://www.digitaltrends.com/home-th... SUBSCRIBE FOR THE LATEST VIDEOS http://bit.ly/DTYouTubeSub VISIT DIGITAL TRENDS http://www.digitaltrends.com/ DT Daily: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... DT Originals: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... DT Podcasts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... FOLLOW US! https://www.facebook.com/digitaltrends https://twitter.com/digitaltrends https://www.instagram.com/digitaltrends https://plus.google.com/+digitaltrend...

Neither Kaspersky Lab nor Microsoft have disclosed details of the attack they have observed leveraging this vulnerability, though Microsoft noted in its bulletin that attackers exploiting this vulnerability can gain the same user rights as the logged in user. As such, if a given user has administrator level access, "an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights," Microsoft wrote in the bulletin.

At this moment, even the most devoted cobra lover would probably have passed, but Kranthi persisted. He took the cobra home to administer first aid and in the morning, brought it to a veterinary hospital. A surgeon operated on the cobra for over an hour.

This does not mean all meetings need to be 50 minutes, they can be shorter - and should be whenever possible to allow stakeholders to maximize their time. When scheduling a meeting, build in the assumption that all stakeholders have more work to do and less time available to sit in meetings. You may find many stakeholders are pleasantly surprised to see a meeting invite for 45, 30, or 20 minutes compared to a one-hour meeting. Also, make sure to send out an agenda well in advance that tells stakeholders the purpose of the meeting and what will be covered. This helps them to come fully prepared and reduces wasted time.

Even the most conspicuous consumer might be caught off guard. "The only real guarantee is if you know exactly what the material is and how its been cared for," Finn says. "Buying things that are boxed doesn't make a difference. You don't know if someone opened that box and went to Staples [to repackage it]. People are able to resell something that's been used and been contaminated."

Thursday, May 10, is the last chance to enter the 2018 Innovation By Design Awards. The 7th annual Innovation By Design Awards is the only competition to honor creative work at the intersection of design, business, and innovation.

Google Lens is pushing that territory further. This year, Lens feels like even more of a push toward the future of computer vision, where apps "know" what the camera is "seeing." It's what's needed before anyone makes a killer pair of smartglasses. And, on glasses, battery life can't last long enough to do the always-scanning stuff a phone can. In that sense, maybe this type of real-world-scanning AR is doing what glasses can't. Yet. "If you think about voice, that's the evolution of how these changes happen," says Chennapragada. "How you change the face of computing itself. We actually had voice actions in 2013, 2014 or so, and that was on the phone. You had a search bar, a microphone there, and you could do a handful of things. For us, I think in some sense there's an intelligence layer that needs to evolve first. There's a device, and there's intelligence. And you want to apply the intelligence layer on the device that everyone uses, which is a phone, and then really sharpen that."

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Over the course of the last few days, Google teased a few updates to Android Auto, its platform for bringing its mobile operating system to the car. At its I/O developer conference, the company showed off what the next version of Android Auto will look like and how developers can start preparing their applications for it.

Anyone who’s used an iPhone X already knows how to navigate around in the next version of Google’s mobile operating system. The company showed off Android P at its developer conference today, and it includes a touch bar at the bottom of the screen, just like Apple’s flagship phone.

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NEW YORK/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Walmart Inc ( WMT.N ) said on Wednesday it will pay $16 billion for a roughly 77 percent stake in Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart, the U.S. retailer’s largest-ever deal as it competes with Amazon.com Inc ( AMZN.O ) in an important growth market.

Once you allow HQ to access your address book and you add friends to the title, you can see which of your buddies are playing along with you. When you choose to put your icon on answers, your friends can see your choice. It's like when you're in a bar playing trivia and you all shout out your answers. "We understand the power of the crowd and playing together," HQ 's James Ruben told TechCrunch . "That doesn't necessarily exist everywhere. Our goal is to spread that power to people who maybe aren't playing in the office together."

Reddit is the center of a number of pro-net neutrality protests, with individual subreddits hosting their own variations of the Red Alert event. r/Politics, for example, will be home to an AMA with Sen. Ed Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, at 2:30 p.m. ET (11:30 a.m. PT) Wednesday. You can follow along with the AMA here, and as expected, the questions have been highly critical of the FCC's vote to repeal net neutrality.

Lyft is moving ahead with tests of the All-Access plan, a monthly subscription service for rides through the Lyft platform. In the next couple of hours, a select group of riders will see an option to sign up for a waitlist to be part of Lyft’s next round of All-Access invitations.

Other new Google Photos features also leverage AI: For instance, it can now figure out that you’ve snapped a photo of a document and respond by creating a PDF of it, or remove the color from a photo’s background so the person in the foreground pops. But when I chatted with Google VP Anil Sabharwal at I/O about Photos’ update, we ended up talking less about AI than the fact that the app’s interface increasingly makes suggestions about things you might want to do when you’re looking at a photo , rather than expecting you to hunt down functionality buried elsewhere.

( 10:22am PST ) Pichai is touting some impressive Google Photos features that leverage its AI prowess. You'll soon be able to remove the color from a background to make the subject stand up. Another example showed an older black and white family photo colorized, all by the AI. It got a lot of 'woo' in the audience, and it's deserved.